Coral Reefs of Eastern Asia under Anthropogenic Impacts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: The Relevance of Anthropogenic Factors to Coral Reef Conservation in the Coastal Areas of the East China Sea

   • Ichiro Takeuchi

   Pages 1-5

3. Transitional Coral Ecosystem of Taiwan in the Era of Changing Climate

   • Chao-Yang Kuo, Shashank Keshavmurthy, Ya-Yi Huang, Ming-Jay Ho, Hernyi Justin Hsieh, An-Tzi Hsiao et al.

   Pages 7-35

4. Dynamics of Coral Reef Communities in the Sekisei Lagoon, Japan, Following the Severe Mass Bleaching Event of 2016

   • Mariyam Shidha Afzal, Kana Ikeda, Mitsuhiro Ueno, Takashi Nakamura

   Pages 37-52

5. Succession and Emergence of Corals in High-Latitude (Temperate) Areas of Eastern Asia into the Future

   • Shashank Keshavmurthy, Takuma Mezaki, James Davis Reimer, Kwang-Sik Choi, Chaolun Allen Chen

   Pages 53-71

6. Succession and Spread of Coral Diseases and Coral-Killing Sponges with Special Reference to Microbes in Southeast Asia and Adjacent Waters

   • Hideyuki Yamashiro, Naohisa Wada, Sen-Lin Tang

   Pages 73-96

7. Succession of Ocean Acidification and its Effects on Reef-Building Corals

   • Atsushi Suzuki, Akira Iguchi, Kazuhiko Sakai, Masahiro Hayashi, Yukihiro Nojiri

   Pages 97-112

8. Anthropogenic Stresses in Coral Reefs and Adjacent Ecosystems of the East China Sea

   • Ichiro Takeuchi

   Pages 113-137

9. Development of a Compact Experimental System for Ecotoxicological Experiments on Acropora spp.

   • Ichiro Takeuchi, Kotaro Takayama

   Pages 139-151

10. Effects of Anthropogenic Chemicals on Hermatypic Corals with Special Reference to Gene Expression

    • Hiroshi Ishibashi, Ichiro Takeuchi

    Pages 153-166

11. Perspective for the Conservation of Coral Reefs in the East China Sea

    • Ichiro Takeuchi

    Pages 167-180

Coral reefs, which are one of the most productive and biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, serve various important roles, such as providing shelter and spawning grounds to a wide range of marine animals. However, the global decline of hard corals in tropical and subtropical regions is a growing concern. A recent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicated that only 10%–30% of coral reefs would survive with an increase of 1.5 °C in global warming temperature. Of coral reefs around the world, the coral reefs in eastern Asia face one of the most industrially developed and high population areas in the world. Thus, coral reefs of eastern Asia have been affected by various anthropogenic factors, such as eutrophication, coastal development, anthropogenic pollutants, ocean acidification, disease, and overfishing. Therefore, urgent research is required to determine the levels at which different factors will affect coral health. Besides, we propose a perspective on coral reef (especially those in eastern Asia) conservation under climate change and various anthropogenic activities.

• Anthropogenic Activity
• Conservation
• Climate Change
• Coral Reef
• East Asia

• Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

  Ichiro Takeuchi

• Sesoko Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Motobu, Japan

  Hideyuki Yamashiro

Ichiro Takeuchi

Since the past 30 years, I have been conducting research in the following subject area: (1) species diversity and ecology of amphipod crustaceans based on fieldwork along the coasts from Antarctica to North America, and (2) the analysis of the distribution of anthropogenic chemicals in shallow-water ecosystems. Understanding how shallow-water ecosystems are changing due to various anthropogenic activities motivated me to study the conservation of the coral reef ecosystem.

 

Hideyuki Yamashiro

I have been studying corals and coral-associates for 40 years. My recent interests shifted to coral infectious diseases, including the coral-killing sponge, in Japanese coral reefs, where there is a rise in disease occurrence in corals, most of which are associated with global and local environmental disturbances.